#9006 - Nov 1990

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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. 6 Augu~ta Parking Yarn' a real tangle · Masha Buell (Overheard on Augusta: another woeful tale reflecting Kensington's ongoing parking and traffic headaches) For some time now, one business has had a regular delivery of heavy goods. The routine is a familiar one - the driver pulls over and partway up on the sidewalk. He hops down from the cab to alert the guys in the store. Then it's all hands on deck for this family run business as they turn out to help heave the sacks off the truck, to speed things up. It usually takes about 15 .- 20 minutes. And the battered sign above their heads reads Loading Zone. Just up the street a clothing business has an extensive outdoor display. The proprietor harbours growing frustration - shoppers can't see his merchandise from the corner, can't pass on the sidewalk. And they certainly can't turn the corner or drive past to park illegally in front of his store. Sp, this one day, Mr. Clothes has had enough. The police are summoned, and duly arrive-not surprising because they've been ticketing illegally parked vehicles with great vigour of late. The clothing merchant lets the police have it; he's lost as much as $1000 worth of business because of that truck. The driver must be summonsed. The police are all set to comply when a voice from behind another display drily observes that while the truck is actually loading and unloading someone has actually parked an automobile behind the truck. And someone has parked an automobile in front of the truck. The young men, heated from the loading and unloading join in the discussion. If the truck must be summonsed then so must those two cars. And of course, as with the Zoom Boom (see the October Drum) the police can only comply with the logic. But then, lo and behold, it is revealed that the cars in question, preventing the truck from leaving the scene of the crime, belong to none . other than Mr. Clothes and Co. They naturally do not want tickets to add to their other losses. The officer begs mercy and shakes his head in disbelief. And no-one is_ summonsed. Narrow streets, simmering outrage, years of frustration, and life in Kensington goes on. Lighten Up For The Holidays ~ ~ ~~tt; ~e ~'fl.., ·'·A +., _ one phone call gets you: - ""'#~ · an extension ~cord ~ a string of holiday lights (bulbs included) and best of all, willing hands to help put them up! Friday December 21st is the longest.night of the year. Want to be the brightest light on your block when the Festival Parade rolls by? CALL NOW 593·9750 ask for Martin Zimmerman with the kind co-operation of the Kensington Market Business Association and St. Stephen's Community House MARKET MATTERS The Kensington Market Drum, November 1990 "Cut Rate Drug Store" corners of Spadina & Nassau 1910 to 1920. Original painting part of Auction. photo: provided by Metropolitan Toronto library St. Stephens Fundraiser to be a Kensing#ton Celebration Peigi T. Rockwell St. Stephen's Community House is focusing on the Kensington Market community for this year's fundraising event. The fundraising committee is looking for historical photographs of the community and is inviting Kensington celebrities to be part of the event which takes place on Saturday, December 8 from 7:30pm to 1:00am at the El Mocambo on Spadina Ave. Toronto's own -Prairie Oyster will provide dance music for the evening. Market restaurants and foodstores are donating appetizers and local businesses are providing items to be awarded as prizes and auctioned off. "We are hoping to make $15,000 at this event," says fundraising director Carol Roberts. "The money will go toward supporting the House's many communitybased programs." Tickets for the evening are $40 per person and come with partial tax receipt. If you would like to donate an item to the event or purchase tickets call Clare Parfitt at 925-2103. ~ ... · j ~~1'NJJ!.!~~c0:;~,~1~ 61\J\T1J 811~ f/Jr1@.p /k@.!ft!:/i; ~©mwMJJ.fli1~~()}1i®rJ.&!f;@. ANNUAL FUNDRAISER ~ill11 ~ .. ~··· ..;Y~at re o 1 stei' 7:30 to illilll1 ~ illTH 1:00am [t=/Sl-1 Bt=ll?@Dt=l/~[1/~G@ PI?IZE5@ RL/CT/01~ ~~464 SPJIDINJITICKETS $qo~oo PAIHIAL TAX nECEIPT 1 -,-, l [.1 r [t, 0[~' 'J ~-, . , r r"1 0:!.1 t~ •'c: Clare orGeorge O:JC_:JJI-l:J _11...._1 c C..-'
Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. ~ ' The Kensington Market Drum, November 1990 MARKET MATTERS 7 Garbage Crunch II ADler Supports_Extra Pick Up - by Mike Milando Just before going to press, Drum learned that City councillor Amer has written to City Public Works Commissioner Vardin, supporting a request from Market residents, merchants, and environmentalists for an extra weekly garbage pick-up. In the letter, Amer recognized that Kensington Market includes a market and thus has a need for more frequent garbage pick ups than a strictly residential community. But she tied her support to the effectiveness, one year from now, of the comprehensive waste reduction strategy being developed here. Before the next meeting of Kensington's garbage action gr-oup some time in the last week of November, group members plan to survey merchants asking what the breakdown of their garbage is and if they support the call for City collections Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Councillor Amer has been invited to this upcoming meeting. Downtown Metro councillor Dale Martin has already said he will attend. Martin's involvement is seen as crucial. While City Public Works collects garbage, it's. Metro Works who must do something with it: reduce, reuse, or recycle it at best; put it in landfills or incinerate it into the atmosphere at worst. At a recent composting conference, councillor Martin criticized Metro Council's "reckless strategy" for carrying out this responsibility. He spoke about the lack of public involvement and catalogued Council's inaction. Such delays by Council, he said, are leading inevitably to more large-scale landfills and incinerators before or without environmental assessments, instead of reduction, reuse, and recycling on a smaller and more decentralized basis. The strategy's "profound weakness", he maintained, is its "top-down approach", not involving the public. He went on to summarize a report adopted by Metro Council a year ago containing 5 steps for bottom-up, communitybased consultation processes for the siting of waste management facilities. Though it was adopted, it hasn't been implemented, he said. When informed of efforts in Kensington to organize composting of merchants organic· waste, he mentioned plans for a composter and organic waste management facility at the Ontario Food Terminal. Metro Works commissioner Ferguson will be reporting on it in two weeks and Martin will report to merchants inform residents and merchants at the garbage action group meeting. At another recent conference, of the It's Not Garbage environmental coalition, Maura Mcintyre and Bruce Pearce, executive assistants to City councillor Amer, distributed copies of the October issue of Drum. They highlighted the article reporting on efforts to organize extra collection and composting in the Market. November -s, 1990 Mr Nick Vardin commissioner ~ublic Works Department 23ra floor, East tower City Hall Re: CITY OF TORONTO Councillor Elizabeth Amer City Hall, Toronto M~H 2N2 Telephone 392-7911 Ward Five Request for Additional Garbage Pick-up in· Kensington Market Dear Mr vardin, A group of residents, merehants and environmentalists in Kensington Market has requested that the City add an extra weekly garbage pickup in the market. I support this request, and ask that you give it your favourable consideration. My office has been working with the community to develop a waste reduction strategy and we will soon be submitting our recommendations to the City. There are more then 200 businesses within the community, many of which are restaurants and green grocers. The existing collection system--designed for a strictly residential community--does not address the waste problem posed by the large retail -community. I recommend that an extra weekly garbage pick-up be extended to Kensington Market in recognition of this problem and of the community's efforts to develop a comprehensive waste reduction strategy. If implemented, such a pick-up should be reviewed in a year's time to evaluate the progress of the reduction strategy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. cc Kensington Drum Kensington Market Area Task Force , 'H'Hf!l/&.1!: •1.111!!1'Ja13 • 'lll.S: 392-7307 A Sec>ao de Tradu>6es lnforma-o aobre assuntos thunicipais. na sua pr6pria lingua. 392·7348 Per lnformaliOni circi i ~rvizi municipali. chiaman:. I'Ufficlo Traduzioni al 392 .. 7373 _ __ _ ____ _ ____ __ ___ _ _ _ _____ __ _ '!h_e _ qt) _ cf_~o~o_n!_O _ ~a~ _d~-~~~ i_~~~f _tc? · ~ ~ _N_u~l-~r- ~~~s - ~r~- ~n_e _ _ _ _ _ Changes by Angie Choly Autumn is definitely here and there has been enough crispness in the air to remind us that winter will soon break in upon the scene. Changes. On the corner of Bellevue and Nassau sits a little variety/grocery store, the kind of store that reminds one of days gone by. It's the type of place that's becoming scarce, run by elderly couples who have made it their life. It was the cheap cigarettes that initially made me return again and again, until I realized that this shuffling lively pair was the real reason I was there. On any given day I'd go in and ask the wife for a package of cigarettes and she would start to look about for my brand. Her husband who was always determined that the whole exchange should only take seconds would proceed 'to interrupt as if she were incompetent. At that point she would look at me, patience streaming out of her smiling eyes. · With heaps of freshly sliced tomatoes, fresh buns, various cheeses, cold cuts with unpronouncable names (they made sandwiches,too) an old weigh scale, a cash register, piles of boxes and old fridges, there wasn't . much room for the two of them back there. Giggles would ensue-I had witnessed this scene many times before. She'd roll her eyes and lean over the counter with a conspiratorial air and say that he liked to do this, then reach back and magically . produce what her husband was still looking for. I admired her acceptance. I've had a busy week. I went into the store today and they weren't there. I asked, they'd retired nine days ago. I Changes. As I walked away I was left with a feeling of betrayal. I thought that they would always be there. It stings because I never even got to know their names. photo: Peigi Rockwell i (no I I ~ 2 You Call, We Haul frills, no spills) Anywhere in Metro or the GTA Call (24 hrs) 925-6800 best rates NET ••• WORI!~ (the bottom line) Wildwood Design Woodwork, Cabinetry & Interiors. Furniture repaired and refinished. By commission only. Competitive rates. Call 593 9279
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